Adding stroke to text in Flash CS4?

But I can't figure this out or find it anywhere.
How do you add/edit stoke on text in Flash CS4??
Thanks.

G.Bob,
> How do you add/edit stoke on text in Flash CS4??
The closest you can get to a stroke on text is either to a)
break apart
the text into a series of shapes and then use the Ink Bottle
tool to add
stokes to those shapes or b) use a very strong Glow filter.
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begin all flash
> text
> and buttons of my website with other software? perhaps
to buy also the
> Flash
> CS4 version for the solution? is this the new idea of
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> CS4
> version?
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